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NPR, PRI, APM, Pacifica, local public radio stations...what's the worst show they've got? I'm gonna have to go with Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Stale news events retold as unfunny jokes as cringeworthily as possible. also what was the name of that other financial news show...not Marketplace, another one that was around for a while, had a scandal re: the host's conflicts of interests. I remember the host talking to someone who was talking about a market failure, clearly not listening to the guy, and replying "markets! that's great!" Or maybe it was Marketplace.
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Prairie Home Companion is the loving worst. I never seem to remember when it's scheduled and I always gently caress up my drive home from work/errands.
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Tumble posted:Prairie Home Companion is the loving worst.
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all things considered no, you don't consider all things. in fact the exact opposite
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:Car Talk I will loving fight you
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VikingSkull posted:I will loving fight you How does it feel to be trolled
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Tumble posted:Prairie Home Companion is the loving worst Yep. It's on early Saturday evening and probably Sunday at some point
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Tumble posted:Prairie Home Companion is the loving worst. Thread closed.
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I don't know the name but it was some show on Omaha's NPR station where a guy would play about 60 seconds of a piano piece and then complain about how terrible the pianist is and then make incomprehensible philosophical hot takes. As far as I could tell that was it.
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There's one where they talk about words for half an hour that's the most goddamn tedious thing
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It's loving Q. It's Tumblrites: The Radio Show
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counterfeitsaint posted:It's loving Q. That's the Canadian one complete with outspoken feminist guy who turned out to be a serial date rapist, right? Outspoken male feminists committing rape is this decade's closeted Republican politician getting caught sucking dick in public, I swear.
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Excepting the shows themselves, there's a health correspondent for NPR news that sounds like he's talking through a pint of mucus-laden saliva and it's foul to listen to him pronounce things like words with hard consonants
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There's a thing called "The TED Radio Hour" or something like that. I can't vouch for how bad it is because the name itself makes me avoid it.
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Car Talk was poo poo
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No. 6 posted:Car Talk was poo poo yup. two unfunny dads talking in the worst boston accents ever (and boston accents are the worst accents in the world)
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I've never listened to NPR, but years ago on Halloween, I met a guy who explained to me that he was wearing an Ira Glass costume. I didn't know who Ira Glass was, and I wish I still didn't. That's my story, voted Ira Glass.
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for someone whose job it is to speak on the radio, ira glass's enunciation is shockingly bad. it sounds like he can't be bothered to lift his tongue from his lower palate
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Capitol Steps makes me turgid with Blood Rage.
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No. 6 posted:Car Talk was poo poo Car Talk owned so hard and you are bad. Tom Magliozzi is a god.
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Tumble posted:Prairie Home Companion is the loving worst.
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Xaris posted:its on weekends here, which makes weekend NPR suck since its loving PHC and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me seemingly non-stop all weekend, with the occasional Car Talk thrown in. I imagine the audience for WWDTM is all like 60 year old skinny-type aging grey haired women with a sea of grey as far as the eye can see my brother in law is 30 and loves that show
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 Neil Conan, Talk of the nation was too good for npr i guessexcept when he did that really embarrasingly cringey video game episode and he clearly had no loving idea of anything
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Prairie Home Companion can have some really awesome musical guests. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me has a few good guests sometimes too. Ask Me Another is irredeemable. The Splendid Table is a close second. gleebster posted:There's a thing called "The TED Radio Hour" or something like that. I can't vouch for how bad it is because the name itself makes me avoid it. Guy Raz does a petty good job with the show. He cherry picks the best parts of the best talks, and interviews the speakers too. Each show has a theme with several talks, and some have talks with conflicting messages. It's much more palatable than plain TED Talks. Some are also insufferable because they still TED Talks.
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Tumble posted:Prairie Home Companion is the loving worst. Prairie Home Companion is really good actually, sorry you are too much of a broke brained misanthrope to enjoy something that's not super edgy, bitch
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also radiolabs is poo poo. they had a few good episodes like patient zero with aids or typhoid mary, but everyhthing else is just wacky overproduced sound effects brzzzz BING wong ding ding brrrumph This is zshhhhh Radiolabs shhzrrrr from clink clank WNYC bling blinkg BRRR studios
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the worst show on npr is On Being, formerly known as Speaking of Faith, with Krista Tippett
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Prairie home companion only has like bluegrass artists on. gently caress bluegrass Also gently caress Lake wobegon gently caress Guy Noire and gently caress Garisson Keilors soporific fuckin voice. I had to listen to way too much of that poo poo as a kid.
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Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me is obviously the worst, but everything else is still very, very bad. I can't believe I used to enjoy it. Runners up: Ask Me Another and Hidden Brain. The only good show on public radio where I live is a ~1-minute segment where a confused-sounding local biologist identifies things for dumb NPR listeners who send him photos. And the occasional music bump.
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mystery fluid posted:Prairie home companion only has like bluegrass artists on. gently caress bluegrass Garrison retired you philistine. The new guy owns, though.
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Smythe posted:the worst show on npr is On Being, formerly known as Speaking of Faith, with Krista Tippett Yikes how could I have forgotten On Being. So terrible.
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I'll tell you what the best show on public radio was, Ask Dr. Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLstHNRsdU
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B. Birdsworth posted:Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me is obviously the worst, but everything else is still very, very bad. I can't believe I used to enjoy it. all of these shows are extremely good and another good show that doesnt get posted about is science friday with ira flatow which is extremely good. he has a new gal who hosts sometimes now and she is very good too. i was skeptical about her at first as a big flatow fan, but ive come to accept her into my heart.
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B. Birdsworth posted:Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me is obviously the worst, but everything else is still very, very bad. I can't believe I used to enjoy it. I like Fresh Air and 1A
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Smythe posted:all of these shows are extremely good and another good show that doesnt get posted about is science friday with ira flatow which is extremely good. he has a new gal who hosts sometimes now and she is very good too. i was skeptical about her at first as a big flatow fan, but ive come to accept her into my heart. On the other hand, whenever NPR tries to report on science it does a terrible, dumb job.
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